"Bird-woman'

Tonight we went to see E's play at her middle school. In the picture, she's the one in the cool coon skin hat, dressed as a French fur trader. She played the role of Charbonneau (a man) in "Bird-woman," the story of Sacagawea. She had a lot of lines and performed them beautifully. She received a lot of compliments from the parents for her role as a cranky husband. Her yelling on stage even took me by surprise.

After the performance, the cast comes into the lunchroom where E met a few of her friends and L gave her a carnation (that she purchased with her own money!) We finished the night by joining the cast at a local ice cream parlor for a late-night treat. B loved being there with all of E's friends gathered around him, telling him how cute he is. They even took pictures of him on their cell phones to use as their backgrounds - some took several so they could rotate his picture on their phone. What fifth-grade boy wouldn't love the attention of older, middle school girls? He was on cloud nine!